Sound to image - introduction

Year 1 :

Mastering voice recording techniques

master boom and portable recording techniques

Be familiar with the concepts of :

• Critical distance
• Microphone choices (technology and directivity)
• Management of noise and acoustic pollution
• Mastering the construction of a sound scenography

Recording spoken voice

Stage 1: Outside

Choice of microphones for boom recording (technology, directionality)

Organisation of a sound stage (layout of actors and sound recording systems)

Creation of a basic scenography (3 sound planes).

Recording sounds, ambiences and connecting sounds.

Stage 2: in the studio

Recording of separate voices

Choice of microphones, comparison of directivity and placement for each actor.

Stage 3: radio editing

The sound story recorded in continuity is reproduced identically by editing the separate elements.

Stage 4: mixing.

Mixing the assembled elements attempts to reproduce the scene as naturally as possible.

Year 2:

Developing the ability to analyse a film sound extract

Highlight the variety of perceptions and the existence of a "grammar" specific to the language of sound.

Basic notions of sound and image (Lecture) :

• Space-time construction, primary art of cinema
• Sound narration (the different narrative levels of sound)
• Partition speech/music/ambiance/effects/noises (constituent elements of a soundtrack)/
• spectrum/dynamics/spatialisation are used in sound composition
• Distribution methods (cinema/television/home theatre/etc.)
• Show some film extracts as examples of the points studied in class.
• Provide an analysis method and a few essential basics for a successful analysis exercise.
• In-depth analysis of a film extract to arrive at the notion of a sound score.
• Assign each student a subject (a film) and set the precise framework for the exercise to come.

Individual exercise (without supervision), for each student:

• Watching a feature film
• Definition by the student of a brief but precise synopsis of the film
• Selection of a particular, decisive sequence for analysis
• Analysis of the selected sequence
• Creation of a sound score for this sequence
• Broadcast and presentation by each student: 40mn

FSMS 1-2

Oral presentation